Gratitude with Michele Bailey | LAYC10
From a preschool age, Michele Bailey demonstrated her entrepreneurial skills and passion for spreading joy and gratitude. She continued to hone those skills and build businesses, teams, and relationships underpinned by her values and gratitude principles.
Today, Michele Bailey is a renowned international speaker, author and award-winning serial entrepreneur - and one of my most treasured Vitamin G friends!
I am deeply honored to interview Michele as the first guest on the Lift As You Climb podcast and to feature her the same week that Forbes Books launches Michele’s highly anticipated book “The Currency of Gratitude: Turning Small Gestures Into Powerful Business Results” (Release Date: April 13, 2021 – available on Amazon)
The title of her book suggests some of what Michele and I discuss but you’ll have to wait until the end of her interview to get your homework assignment. Trust me – you don’t want to skip this part!
https://forbesbooks.com/michele-bailey/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-bailey-a111b6a/
About the Host:
Isabel Banerjee - Your Next Business
Strategist and Transformation Catalyst
Dynamic, a self-made entrepreneur who overcame obstacles with
an unrelenting positive nature, a farm girl work ethic and a
conscious choice to thrive rather than survive, Isabel Alexander
Banerjee cultivated an award-winning, $10 million+ global
chemical wholesale business and grew it from dining room table
to international boardrooms.
Isabel’s strengths include the ability to initiate & nurture strategic
relationships, a love of lifelong learning and talents for helping
others maximize their potential. An inspiring speaker within both
industry and community, she is a driving force behind those with
the courage to follow her example of thriving against the odds.
With 50+ years of business experience across diverse industries,
Isabel is respected as an advisor, a coach, a mentor and a role
model. She believes in sharing collective wisdom and empowering
others to economic independence.
Founder of the Lift As You Climb Movement (www.facebook.com/groups/liftasyouclimbmovement)
and
Chief Encore Officer, The Encore Catalyst (www.theencorecatalyst.com) – an accelerator for feminine wisdom, influence, and impact.
also
Author & Speaker ‘Who Am I Now? – Feminine Wisdom Unmasked Uncensored’ (www.IsabelBanerjee.com)
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/isabelalexanderbanerjee/
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Meet the Speakers:
Welcome everybody, this is a particularly happy day for me...
Speaker:Because this is the first time, you are witnessing the first time...
Speaker:That I am interviewing a guest on the Lift As You Climb podcast.
Speaker:Up to this point, you've just listened to Moi!...
Speaker:And now it's time to expand what we're doing here in the universe, and start
Speaker:to share with you some very, very special relationships I have with
Speaker:women who also lift as they climb.
Speaker:Today I am interviewing a dear friend, a long time mentor,
Speaker:inspiration, cheerleader of mine.
Speaker:And her name is Michele Bailey.
Speaker:That's Michele with one L, make sure you spell that right when you Google her.
Speaker:And she is the founder, CEO and inspiration of multiple
Speaker:organizations, enterprises.
Speaker:And those details are going to be shared in the show notes.
Speaker:We're not going to take up a lot of time to tell you about those businesses,
Speaker:but I can tell you that two of my favorite ones are Blazing: The Agency.
Speaker:And the other is My Big Idea.
Speaker:And if Michele, if I didn't quite get blazing moniker correct,
Speaker:you can, you can fix that up.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So welcome today, Michele.
Speaker:Thank you, Isabel.
Speaker:I am so delighted to be here with my dear friend of many, many years.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yay!
Speaker:The reason Michele and I met in the beginning was about being an entrepreneur.
Speaker:The first introduction to Michele was a when another bad-ass femmepreneur, put
Speaker:her arm around my neck and took me to a WPO Women Presidents Organization meeting.
Speaker:And that was when I first met Michele in Toronto, Canada MMM...Years ago.
Speaker:And yesterday, I realized it was the 32nd anniversary of me
Speaker:becoming an entrepreneur, and starting my first, all me business.
Speaker:Michele, I think you probably have a few years on me in terms
Speaker:of owning the entrepreneur title?
Speaker:Correct?
Speaker:When did you start your first business?
Speaker:26 years ago, Isabel, for me.
Speaker:26 years!
Speaker:And look how young we are.
Speaker:By the way, the podcast right now, of course, you probably listening
Speaker:to us on your favorite podcast app.
Speaker:Uh, but it's also soon going to be on his own YouTube channel.
Speaker:So you'd be able to check how cute Michele and I are.
Speaker:And that 26 and 32 years of entrepreneurship have
Speaker:only enhanced our glow.
Speaker:So today Michele, I was so grateful, and I am using that
Speaker:word purposely, for all of you.
Speaker:The word gratitude is the theme, the anchor, for this episode.
Speaker:It is only appropriate that Michele should be the guest because today we
Speaker:are celebrating the launch of her new book about gratitude in the world.
Speaker:So by the time this episode airs, her book will be available internationally?
Speaker:I believe Michele?
Speaker:So why don't I have you tell us about the book, and where
Speaker:people will find out about it?
Speaker:The book is called the currency of gratitude.
Speaker:It is being published by Forbes Books.
Speaker:It will be available on Amazon.com starting April 13th, after
Speaker:they launch it in Times Square.
Speaker:Ohh!
Speaker:Really!!?
Speaker:I didn't know that!
Speaker:That's so cool.
Speaker:Darn.
Speaker:If it wasn't 2021, we'd be off to New York to just to celebrate it
Speaker:right there in Times Square, right?
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:Isabel!
Speaker:That's the one thing we can't do, but it will be in Times Square on the Jumbotron.
Speaker:Oh, I am so excited.
Speaker:I'm going to get ... What time of the day do you know yet?
Speaker:I don't know yet.
Speaker:Okay, so I will be sure when we have that information, we'll add it to
Speaker:the show notes so, well, I guess by that time, it will have been a
Speaker:"Fait Accompli", but, maybe we can find it on YouTube and rewatch.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:We've established, that you're an entrepreneur, a serial entrepreneur,
Speaker:which is another reason I'm grateful for you in my life, because you spoke on my
Speaker:first Global Serial Entrepreneurs Summit.
Speaker:Now we've established that you're an author.
Speaker:I happen to know this isn't your first rodeo, in writing
Speaker:a book or publishing a book.
Speaker:How many books have you written Michele?
Speaker:This is my second book, "The Currency of Gratitude" is my second book, the first
Speaker:book was called "It's Not All About You".
Speaker:It's about the company you keep.
Speaker:And I actually wrote that book Isabel, because so many women were asking me for
Speaker:coffee dates, lunch, date, wine dates.
Speaker:They wanted to get into my mind as an entrepreneur and
Speaker:find out all kinds of tidbits.
Speaker:So I launched that book because I didn't have a tremendous amount
Speaker:of time to do all these dates.
Speaker:So I just would give people the book and tell them, read it.
Speaker:It has lots of entrepreneurial hints and hacks for you to live by.
Speaker:That was brilliant.
Speaker:That was very generous of you because then they could take it away.
Speaker:And at any time, you could be with them, because there was that resource book.
Speaker:I still have my copy.
Speaker:I treasure it.
Speaker:I have, repurposed many books in my lifetime, but I will never repurpose that
Speaker:one, because it serves as a reminder to me constantly that I really am the product of
Speaker:the women that I spend the most time with.
Speaker:And to be very wise and careful about where I put that time, and
Speaker:also how I reciprocate with others.
Speaker:So thank you.
Speaker:So I'd love to know.
Speaker:Do you recall an age as a child that you were aware of the word gratitude?
Speaker:You know, Isabel, I believe, I became aware of gratitude in a very big
Speaker:way when I lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, between the ages of 3 to
Speaker:12, my parents were extremely gracious.
Speaker:My Father was a medical doctor and working all the time.
Speaker:And we lived in this big house on North Bay Street.
Speaker:So what my Mother did, is offer the home to exchange students from Nigeria, Quebec,
Speaker:she brought her parents to live with us, she opened up her home and heart to
Speaker:people who needed a little bit of extra...
Speaker:extra help, extra guidance.
Speaker:So I started to see how graciousness and gratitude started to play out.
Speaker:Then I've always been an artist.
Speaker:I would go to my room in the evening and with a pen and ink, I would draw hand made
Speaker:cards, and then I would sell these cards and bunches three and five, with matching
Speaker:envelopes, door to door, to my neighbors.
Speaker:So they too, could write gratitude notes or thank-you notes to other
Speaker:people, done by Moi, a young artist.
Speaker:I love that story!
Speaker:This reveals that you were an entrepreneur and also generating the
Speaker:currency of gratitude as a child.
Speaker:It just went from there.
Speaker:You know what Isabel absolutely did.
Speaker:So it started there, and then we moved so many times, we moved multiple times.
Speaker:And what I've found is in different places, we moved, whether it be different
Speaker:countries or different States, making new friends, trying to fit in, I became
Speaker:very grateful for people who allowed me into their life because I was the newbie.
Speaker:Trying to make friends, especially through high school, I was in 5 different
Speaker:high schools, very hard to fit in...
Speaker:in 3 different countries.
Speaker:So I really had to hone a sense of graciousness, and kindness,
Speaker:and generosity, to people who allowed me to join their cliques,
Speaker:because I was an outsider.
Speaker:You could have gone the complete opposite and withdrawn or been bitter,
Speaker:but fortunately you're, you, and you recognized that the way to find your
Speaker:own happiness, was to continue to improve on that skill of sharing your
Speaker:graciousness and your gratefulness.
Speaker:I know, and anyone knows you personally, I know, will support me
Speaker:in this statement, it's contagious, when we are with you, Michele, it's
Speaker:contagious to want to be more generous, more appreciative, more grateful.
Speaker:In, I, I hope that in a very significant way, the release of your book, will cause
Speaker:a gratitude explosion around the world.
Speaker:I truly, truly hope that I couldn't think of a better time in history.
Speaker:Although history always provides us a reason to make that choice.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:To be grateful or miserable.
Speaker:So thank you.
Speaker:I'm putting that in my arsenal.
Speaker:Is there a pre-sale of your book, just for my own knowledge?
Speaker:Yes, pre-sale, you can order, go ahead and order on Amazon.
Speaker:Forbes has it up.
Speaker:So feel free to pre-order.
Speaker:When we do the actual virtual launch on April 29th, we will have bundled packages
Speaker:with audio, the My Big Idea planner.
Speaker:We will have gratitude cards and the book, that you can bundle together.
Speaker:We are doing a promotion on April 29th, when we do the virtual launch,
Speaker:and it will be our friend, you know her well, Christine Magee.
Speaker:On April 29th at 1:00 PM Eastern time.
Speaker:I have already saved that date on my calendar, and I'll be sharing
Speaker:it with the audience and with our entrepreneurial circle, because I
Speaker:don't want to miss a good party.
Speaker:I know you always have a good party.
Speaker:And what an opportunity and you just thank you for giving me this segue, because I
Speaker:wanted to ask at the end of the show...
Speaker:Would you come back another day, on the podcast, and talk
Speaker:about My Big Idea with me?
Speaker:I just feel this is a time also where it would be so important
Speaker:to people to understand that concept of having a big idea.
Speaker:Setting the goals, and the process that you created, that I have
Speaker:used multiple times in my life.
Speaker:Absolutely Isabel.
Speaker:And you've already taken the program several times, and I would love
Speaker:to share how to get a personal and professional work-life blend.
Speaker:We're already working on My Big Idea, 3.0, we're including the COVID fatigue
Speaker:and what has shown up, or not showing up for people throughout COVID.
Speaker:Diversity and inclusion in both our personal and professional lives, and ESG.
Speaker:Let's bring it all together, and let's address, the issues
Speaker:that people need to talk about.
Speaker:Whether it's recognizing it in themselves, but moving forward...
Speaker:because we have to have a more inclusive and grateful
Speaker:world, as we come out of 2021.
Speaker:That is so important, and the timing again, absolutely, perfect.
Speaker:Thank you for doing that.
Speaker:This is news to me, and I'm excited to hear about this.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So, I'm going to fess up, cause I'm going to guess, I may not
Speaker:be the only person listening.
Speaker:What's ESG?
Speaker:Environmental Sustainability Goals.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Whoa!
Speaker:I don't get full marks.
Speaker:But I get part marks for remembering.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Which is very important, everybody out there, because I'm a farm girl at heart,
Speaker:and always will be so environmental sustainability started for me as a child.
Speaker:Okay that's really, really exciting to know about that.
Speaker:And it's so cool because you know what we are talking about
Speaker:in the current Summit, is...
Speaker:How we as entrepreneurs, femmepreneurs.
Speaker:Take the lessons that we learned through difficult un
Speaker:scheduled, inconvenient times.
Speaker:Of which, there always will be, in history.
Speaker:The current one that happens to be called a pandemic.
Speaker:And how we take the lessons that we learn.
Speaker:And then we transform, improve, innovate our businesses.
Speaker:And, what I'm hearing is you recognize there was an opportunity
Speaker:to up-level, the My Big Idea reach because of this, is that right?
Speaker:Absolutely, Isabel, because in the My Big Idea program we asked
Speaker:usually 10 questions per section, but they are simple, but profound.
For instance:Through this pandemic, who showed up for you that you
For instance:least expected, and who didn't show up for you, that you expected?
For instance:What value have you relied on through this pandemic?
For instance:What new habits have you created that you will still have when this is over?
For instance:Different questions like that, to make you reflect and really think
For instance:about your life moving forward.
For instance:I love those questions.
For instance:And with your permission, I'd like to include those in the show notes,
For instance:because that's a good thought starter.
For instance:And that's a good...
For instance:Get off your ass and change your own world.
For instance:Way to begin.
For instance:Right?
For instance:Absolutely.
For instance:Coincidentally, a bout 2 episodes ago, or maybe 3 on this podcast, I did an episode
For instance:about one whole life, and I spoke about our dear friend and Mentor, Marg Hachey's,
For instance:revelation that she shared to me that as women, as femmepreneurs, entrepreneurs...
For instance:We don't have one professional life and one personal life.
For instance:That in fact, we have one whole life.
For instance:And I said, that work, life, balance, is BS.
For instance:Because it's my experience, my opinion, that if everything is
For instance:in balance, nothing is moving.
For instance:Nothing is changing, nothing is growing.
For instance:There has to be movement and give and take.
For instance:And so when you first expressed, the term work-life blend, I went,
For instance:yeah, okay, that I can buy into.
For instance:It's a blend, and each day I'm in charge of the recipe.
For instance:Right?
For instance:How much of the professional part I put in?
For instance:How much of the personal part I put in and I'm the cook, Thank you.
For instance:Thank you for that.
For instance:All right.
For instance:Going back to.
For instance:The currency of gratitude concept.
For instance:Was there any particular moment in your business career that you remember the
For instance:catalyst, let's say, for you to start to incorporate that practice of gratitude
For instance:in your business and with your clients?
For instance:Because...
For instance:I know because of our relationship, that you do a lot of gratitude work
For instance:with your major clients and their teams.
For instance:Well, actually, gratitude for me, was second nature, it is second nature.
For instance:About 4 years ago, my managing partner Eric Marshall, I went to him and I said,
For instance:I've been asked to open a woman's summit with a 5 minute speech on my passion.
For instance:And he looked at me and said, and what are you speaking on?
For instance:I said, personal professional goal setting for work-life blend.
For instance:And he looked at me and said, Michele, that's your process.
For instance:That's not your passion.
For instance:And this very cynical man looked at me and I said, what do you mean?
For instance:That's not my passion?
For instance:He said, no, that's your process.
For instance:Your passion is gratitude.
For instance:Everything about you is about being grateful.
For instance:And he walked off!
For instance:Yay, Eric!!!
For instance:And then I sat down, and I thought about it and I thought, he's absolutely right.
For instance:It is about gratitude.
For instance:Because gratitude opens up so many doors for us, and it's
For instance:a gift that keeps on giving.
For instance:It's a gift we give out that comes back to us, threefold in whatever
For instance:way, gratitude shows up for people.
For instance:And I'm not just talking about a note.
For instance:I'm not talking about a lovely email.
For instance:I'm not talking about a phone call.
For instance:I'm talking about all the ways gratitude shows up and you don't expect it.
For instance:An unexpected, sincere smile from a stranger.
For instance:Someone walks by you, especially if it's a woman and says, darn it, you look awesome.
For instance:Buys you a coffee, whether it's in the coffee line, drive through or someone who
For instance:just shows up and puts a cup on your desk.
For instance:Things like making a call to someone that you know is struggling.
For instance:And just being there to listen to whatever it is they want to say.
For instance:Sometimes, it's just letting silence do the lifting.
For instance:It's just a really, really great hug where people know you care.
For instance:There's so many ways, gratitude, kindness, empathy, show up.
For instance:Figure out what works for you with the person you're with.
For instance:I hear you and I, walk in your shoes in that area.
For instance:It's something that, not every day, certainly, am I as good
For instance:at doing that, consistently.
For instance:And I want to do better, I know you work with large brands and major corporations
For instance:in your, advertising, branding business, your digital marketing business.
For instance:How do you convey to a CEO?, or a manager in a larger organization, that they can
For instance:recoup the investment, so to speak, to make that currency in their business?
For instance:Well, that's actually why I wrote The Currency of Gratitude.
For instance:I teach people how small gestures create big business results.
For instance:And I like to teach them by starting with example, I ask, it doesn't matter
For instance:if it's the CEO, it's a VP level manager.
For instance:Whoever the people I work with are the people that have
For instance:been trusted us in their care.
For instance:I often ask if we can meet for coffee or lunch.
For instance:I take the time and often they send me, I don't have any time
For instance:that you're going to have to eat.
For instance:How about I bring lunch to you?
For instance:And all I do when I'm meeting with them is say, I'm here to
For instance:get to know you as a person.
For instance:We're not here to talk about business, unless you want to talk about business.
For instance:That's not why I'm here.
For instance:I'm here to tell you, that I appreciate what you do.
For instance:The work you give us.
For instance:You've got awesome people.
For instance:We love working with them, but I'm just wanting to get to know you as
For instance:a person and how I might be able to help you in whatever way I can.
For instance:Isabel, this takes people aback.
For instance:They kind of look at me and cross their arms.
For instance:Like we just want to talk.
For instance:Yes.
For instance:And I'm doing that through this last year with the pandemic.
For instance:Zoom, I have virtual lunches.
For instance:Make sure you have your lunch.
For instance:I have my lunch and we talk about everything, but business.
For instance:I have to tell you, I cannot get off the phone with my clients
For instance:until we booked the next one.
For instance:They want the next one booked because it's just fun.
For instance:We're just sharing ideas, strategies, talking openly, talking vulnerably,
For instance:being vulnerable, being transparent.
For instance:I often, again, lead by example.
For instance:You know, a client might say to me, so how are you doing Michele?
For instance:And I might say, you know, this has been a really hard week for me.
For instance:I'm really struggling.
For instance:I'm really struggling to be positive.
For instance:And I know I need to be positive for my team, but I'm having a really hard time.
For instance:So I find myself doing, and then don't look at me and go, wow.
For instance:Then let me share with you my week and then becomes open, honest,
For instance:vulnerable, and real right now we don't have time for the superficial.
For instance:Because we are all struggling differently in our own way.
For instance:And I tell people when I have energy, it is my job to pay it forward
For instance:and give energy to somebody else.
For instance:Just like if you have energy Isabel, you need to pay it forward,
For instance:because we need to keep lifting each other up lift as we climb.
For instance:We need to do that to one another.
For instance:Thank you.
For instance:You know, just thinking energy isn't pie there.
For instance:Isn't a limited number of slices, right?
For instance:Energy is un-limited and continues to expand and how brilliant to think
For instance:We're not trying to sell ourselves, but we are giving of ourselves.
For instance:To that other relationship by being human and really caring about them.
For instance:The old, masculine style of salesmanship, this is a far
For instance:better, more enduring, sustainable way of building a relationship.
For instance:We know the person, what their goals are, their struggles are, and figure
For instance:out what we have to offer, how that will support them to accomplish what they
For instance:want for their own personal satisfaction.
For instance:You know what, when you're vulnerable and open, it comes back to you
For instance:Isabel, you know that, we've been in many places together.
For instance:Yes, absolutely.
For instance:as I, often kid people, that I'm willing to be the person that'll
For instance:sit in my underwear in the room, be vulnerable and awkward, so that
For instance:everybody else can let down their armor and let's find the solution.
For instance:Let's figure this out.
For instance:So But then again, you taught me a few things about good
For instance:underwear, so that's good.
For instance:Okay.
For instance:So where do you go from here?
For instance:Like how, what are the other ways that this message,
For instance:which is more than a message?
For instance:Really?
For instance:It's a, culture that we could spread, one at a time, multiples
For instance:of us at a time, this new awareness of how gratitude is good business.
For instance:Isabel, I would love to start a gratitude movement.
For instance:I love to teach people how simple it is, to recognize, another individual.
For instance:If you start following me on all my social channels.
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This Is My Big Idea, and LinkedIn: My Big Idea.
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You are going to see how we are trying to dial up the conversation,
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and show people how easy it can be.
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I undertook this, how can I say this?
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It almost, wasn't an option for me not to write this book, because they had heard
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that I teach a very simple, but powerful way of how to acknowledge people in your
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life, through the, My Big Idea program.
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They approached me and they said the business world needs to get this.
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What can you do?
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Can you write this book?
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So I thought about it, and Isabel, what I did is there's, "Placing gratitude
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at the center of your personal brand", is the first chapter, creating brand
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ambassadors in your own corporation.
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How do you do that?
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Gratitude and winning business.
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Gratitude as a means of retaining clients and customers, gratitude and self care.
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Gratitude in times of crisis, and then making gratitude a habit.
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Those are the chapters of the book.
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I think I've, crescendo-ed all the areas and show, using real business
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cases, ones that out there, and ones that I've employed in my own
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business, that drive the message home.
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And at the end of each chapter, I have reflection questions, simple...
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write right in the book, but this will help you on your gratitude journey.
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This is making gratitude outward facing.
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I love this, Michele.
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I love it on all levels.
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I love that, as you said, gratitude can be a very small, no cost, way of
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reaching out and touching somebody deeply, personally impactfully.
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You can start small and build.
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I love that it involves every one, so it's inclusive.
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and I think there's like this sort of exponential effect that happens...
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It's like a catalytic reaction the more someone else's.
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Grateful the more that creates, it just continues to ripple out.
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And I love that.
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this is a way that, our teams can get behind and involved, in our
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companies and feeling incredible pride in the brand that they work for.
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And just so many ways of looking at the opportunities that gratitude
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creates for us, and creates for others.
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I'm a hundred percent behind your movement.
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It's definitely needed.
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We've had a really good opportunity in this past, lock down,
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withdrawl, to reflect on what's most important in our lives.
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What we miss the most, and to think of different ways to do
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things, and this is so timely.
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Thank you.
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You're so welcome
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All right.
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I know from experience and imagination, that I could talk to
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you for days and days and days, and we would never run out of ideas.
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So I'm going to say, please, let's get our calendars out another time
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and make a date to do this again.
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I'm inviting our audience, to comment and send us suggestions that you'd like
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to hear Michele and I explore deeper, or invite other women to talk about,
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because that is part of Lift As You Climb.
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We are all learning, we are women under construction, women in progress.
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But we are very happy to share what we learn as we go.
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And, we'll come back together, but before you leave us today, I would,
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there's just so much to know about you.
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And there's a lot out there in the media about you, Michele Bailey, but is there
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maybe some thing that might not be on Google that you could share about you?
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Well, Isabel.
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Considering that I own a digital advertising agency.
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What people might not know about me, is I'm an old-fashioned analog girl.
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I love pictures.
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I love memories.
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I love creating memories for people.
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So I print out photographs, and I create scrapbooks.
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Stickers...
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all of that.
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I have done over 57 scrapbooks.
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I give them to friends for special occasions where I've traveled with them.
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So if people say what's Antarctic like?
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What's Chile like?
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What's...
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I just pull out the scrapbooks.
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It's not about looking perfect.
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It's about capturing the memories of the country and all the
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energy that goes around it.
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So in 5 minutes, people can look at these scrapbooks, and they go...
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People ask me over and over again.
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I want one of these.
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I need one of these.
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I said, but you do digital books all the time.
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No, I want one of these.
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You know what, I create scrapbooks.
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I'd say that's an example of sensory gratitude.
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Thank you, Michele.
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All right, everyone out there in podcast and YouTube land, I hope
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that you have enjoyed this time with Michele as much as I have.
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She definitely is gratitude, deep, deep, deep in my soul, and continues
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to lift me, every day, by how she shows up in the world, a sincere,
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flawed, awesome individual, and she is not afraid to show it.
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And I encourage you to be who you really are too.
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Michele.
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Thank you.
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Get out there and make some more people grateful.
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Yay!
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In closing Isabel, I want to thank you for everything you're doing.
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Especially for women.
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Especially for women entrepreneurs.
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We have to stop being crabs in a bucket.
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We can't pull another down when they get to the top of the bucket.
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We need to lift as we climb, so we can change the world together.
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Thanks, Isabel, for including me in your world.
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Thank you, Michele.
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Well said, actually, I think we should give them some homework.
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Michele, how about we get everybody out there writing some thank
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you cards and gratitude notes?
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I would love it, if you could put your assignment for the week, to write 2
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gratitude cards a week for 4 weeks.
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Read them directly to somebody through zoom, or in person, and
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watch the magic that transforms.
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Go for it.
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Awesome.
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Okay.
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There's going to be a gratitude explosion now in the world.
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All right, everybody do your homework.
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I'll talk you soon.
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